Who Is she?

She has spent the last 18 years performing her captivating live shows by night, and the last eight years home schooling her two kids by day.

Introducing artist, mother, and West Coast singer-songwriter Leila Neverland. Her compositions are complex, her truths are simple, and her humongous voice is just that: HUGE.

She wails while rockin’ the keys, the uke, a looping machine, and a synth. She adores playing the big stages with her newly formed heavy neo-soul band Mountain Sound., and still offers solo shows with special guests, and a performance and workshop for children.

Where is she from?

Leila Neverland (b. Leila Naderi: 1985) grew up snow-birding between the Florida Keys’ Islands and East York in the City of Toronto.

When her father got diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease the family moved to Texas, whereupon freaking out, she recorded her first solo piano and voice album at age 16 (and a second at 18).

At age 21, she received an undergraduate research grant from UBC and lived with the Berbers in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains under the UNDP's umbrella, where she interviewed youth about their perceptions of urbanization.

Soon after graduating with a B.A., she recorded her third and fourth back-to-back albums on acoustic guitar.

Then BOOM! Pregnancy. And BOOM! A year later, her Persian Baba (or Dad), who lived from oil lamps through email, died at age 65.

But to no avail, because in betwixt bringing new life and saying farewell to her Baba:

She released an original concept album as the live score to a theatre production called Transcending Orbit;

What Next?

Leila is presently finishing the composition of what will be her first commercially distributed full length album with the trio, and her first commercially distributed solo ukulele album. She is also working on a pro music video, and is planning her virgin tours cross-Canada and to Germany in 2019/2020.